Should-Read: Ernest Gellner (1990): The Civil and the Sacred: “The history of the Soviet Union… falls into two main periods: Terror and Squalor… http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/02/weekend-reading-from-ernest-gellner-1990-the-civil-and-the-sacred.html …Both inside and outside the Communist world, Marxism succeeded in securing a near monopoly of the critique of liberal theory and practice…. Like other faiths, Marxism operated in a circle of … Continue reading Should-Read: Ernest Gellner (1990): The Civil and the Sacred